LMS purchasing

When a learning platform no longer serves your business needs, should you move on? Use this checklist to decide if it's time to break up with your LMS...

In recent years, many LMS buyers shifted their focus from compliance-oriented employee solutions to the extended enterprise. How else is the market changing?

If you're in the market for a learning system, beware. It's all too easy to buy an LMS you will hate. Learn how to avoid common purchasing pitfalls...

What are the most common LMS license models? Find out what our research reveals, so you can choose a learning platform that best meets your organization's needs.

To add insult to injury, although the CE Buyer is a large organization, the level of support provided by the LMS vendor was minimal-to-non-existent, and vendor executives were nowhere to be found.

First, recognize that hundreds of systems are designed to support training, but many are unlikely to meet your organization's specific needs and budget, which means that your job is to zero-in quickly on the handful of systems that actually deserve your consideration.

We obsess about every facet of the LMS market so our clients can more effectively attract, engage and educate learning audiences of all types – B2B and B2C customers, channel partners and contractors, employees, association members, continuing education students and the public-at-large.

While the "setup–show–recap" method requires more effort than the "spray and pray" approach, prospects should recognize that you've mapped their pain points to relevant use cases.

From a practical and political perspective, choosing an extended enterprise LMS independent of HR or L&D is often easier than pursuing a one-LMS-for-all solution.

Every LMS buyer faces challenges, but it's especially rough choosing among global learning platforms. Why? What should you know?